Unlock Hope podcast

Using Comedy to Overcome Adversity

2023-04-27
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Join me and Surina Jindal in this discussion of overcoming trauma, fear, stress and adversity through creativity and comedy.

Surina Jindal is an actress (Succession, Outsourced, 90210), award-winning producer, and public speaking coach. 

She is the co-creator and executive producer of the 2021 Comedy Central feature film Hot Mess Holiday. Jindal starred and executive produced alongside Gunpowder & Sky and Kal Penn. 

She recently co-produced The Giants, a sumo wrestling docuseries currently airing on Rakuten TV. The series won the 2022 Sports Industry Award for Best Original Content Series. 

She also co-produced Lemon (2017), a comedic short starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Noah Bean, and Jenn Lyon. The short premiered at Tribeca, played in festivals worldwide and aired on United Airlines and Amazon Prime, where it became one of the most-watched shorts on Amazon. For her producing efforts, Jindal also became an IFP Screen Forward Labs Fellow.

Her recent producing stint in India had her developing a sitcom for Netflix India, as well as producing and directing the podcast My Ex-Breast for Audible.

Jindal recently served as the Director of Development at Ambassador Studios, a sports and gaming media company focused on frontier markets. 

She just completed her directorial debut, Title Fight: Between Two Worlds, a feature-length documentary about Arjan Singh Bhullar, the first South Asian MMA heavyweight champion of the world.


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